St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-23
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Full Text of the Cullom- Reagan
Act as Passed by Congress.
DEFINITION OF TERMS.
Long and Short Hauls and Relative
Compensation Therefor.

Combinations to Prevent Continuous Car
riage Prohibited-Liability for Dam
sges-Interstate Commerce Commits
sion-How Constituted-Its Powers.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES by Carriers.
Appeals to Supreme Court-Ths Conn
mutation and Pass Questions.
So much interest has been manifested
in the new Interstate Commerce bill,
which goes into effect April 4, that we
herewith reproduce 1t in full. Shippers,
railroad men, and business men generally,
will find it worth their while to preserve
it for reference. The names of the COM
missioners have already been given.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives. of the United States Of
America in Congress assembled:
Provisions of Act-To Whom Applicable.
| That the provisions IF this act shall ap-
| ply to any common carrier or carriers en-
gagged in the transportation of passengers
or property wholly by railroad, or partly
by railroad and partly by water when
both are used, under common control,
management, or arrangement, for con-
| tinuous carriage or shipment, from one
state or territory of the United States, or
! the District of Columbia, to any other
state or territory of the United States, or
the District of Columbia, or from any
place in the United States to an adjacent
foreign country, Or from any place i'll the
United States through a foreign country
to any other place il the United States,
and also to the transportation i'll like
manner Of property shipped from any
place in the Unite States to a foreign
country and carried from such place to a
port of transshipmt mt, or shipped from
foreign country to any place in the United
States and carried to such place from Il
port of entry either in the United States
or an adjacent foreign country: provided,
however, that the provisions of this act
shall not apply to the transportation of
passengers or property, or to the receiy-
ing, delivering, storage or handling of
property, wholly within one state, and not
shipped to or from foreign country from
or to any state or territory as aforesaid.
Terms Railroad" and Transportation"
Defined.
The term ''railroad'' as used in this act
shall include all bridges and ferries used or
operated in connection with any railroad,
and also all the road in use by any cor
poration, operating railroad, whether
toI
agreement, or lease; and the term ''trans-
portation'' shall include all instrument
talities Of shipment or carriage.
Reasonable and inst Charges.
All charges made for any service rem
dered or to be rendered in the transporta-
ton of passengers or property as aforesaid,
or in connection Herewith, or for the re-
ceiving, delivering, storage, or handling
of such PROPERTY, shall be reasonable and
just; and every unjust and unreasonable
charge for such service is prohibited and
declared to be unlawful.
Special Rates, Rebates, Drawbacks, I'm
just Discrimination.
Sec 2. That if any common carrier
subject to the provisions of this act shall,
directly or indirectly, by any special rate,
rebate, drawback, or other device, charge,
demand, collect, or receive from any per-
son or persons greater or less compensa-
ton for any service rendered, Or to be rem
dered, in the transportation of passengers
or property subject to the provisions of
this act, than it charges, demands, or col
lects, Or receives from any other person
or persons for doing for him or them a
like and contemporaneous service in the
of like kind Of traffic |
under substantially similar circumstances
and conditions, such common carrier shall |
be deemed guilty of unjust discrimina |
ton, which is hereby prohibited and de- |
cIared to be unlawful.
Undue or Unreasonable Preferences-In-
terchange of Traffic.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for
any common carrier subject to the provis-
ions Of this act to make or give any undue
or unreasonable preference OF advantage
to any particular person, company, firm,
or locality, or any particular
description of traffic, in any respect what
soever, or to subject any particular person,
firm, corporation, or locality, or
any particular description Of traffic, to
any undue or unreasonable prejudice or
in any respect whatsoever.
Every common carrier subject to the
provisions of this act shall, according to
heir respective powers, afford all reason
able, proper and equal facilities for the
of traffic between their re-
,pective lines, and for the receiving, for
varding and delivering of passengers and
to and from their several lines
md those connecting Herewith, and shall
not discriminate in their rates and charges
between such connecting lines; but this
hall not he construed as requiring any